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Selected Publications

Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.

• 1. Watamura N, Sato K, Shiihashi G, Iwasaki A, Kamano N, Takahashi M, Sekiguchi M, Mihira N, Fujioka R, Nagata K, Hashimoto S, Saito T, Ohshima T, Saido TC, Sasaguri H.:
  "An isogenic panel of App knock-in mouse models: Profiling β-secretase inhibition and endosomal abnormalities"
  Science Advances. 8(23):eabm6155. (2022)
• 2.Sasaguri H, Hashimoto S, Watamura N, Sato K, Takamura R, Nagata K, Tsubuki S, Ohshima T, Yoshiki A, Sato K, Kumita W, Sasaki E, Kitazume S, Nilsson P, Winblad B, Saito T, Iwata N, Saido TC.:
  "Recent Advances in the Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease"
  Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16:807473. (2022)
• 3.Sato K, Watamura N, Fujioka R, Mihira N, Sekiguchi M, Nagata K, Ohshima T, Saito T, Saido TC, Sasaguri H.:
  "A third-generation mouse model of Alzheimer's disease shows early and increased cored plaque pathology composed of wild-type human amyloid β peptide"
  Journal of Biological Chemistry. 297(3):101004. (2021)
• 4.Sato K, Sasaguri H (co-first author), Kumita W, Inoue T, Kurotaki Y, Nagata K, Mihira N, Sato K, Sakuma T, Yamamoto T, Tagami M, Manabe R, Ozaki K, Okazaki Y, Saido TC, Sasaki E.:
  "A non-human primate model of familial Alzheimer’s disease"
  bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2020.08.24.264259. (2020)
• 5.Sasaguri H, Nagata K, Sekiguchi M, Fujioka R, Matsuba Y, Hashimoto S, Sato K, Kurup D, Yokota T, Saido TC.:
  "Introduction of pathogenic mutations into the mouse Psen1 gene by Base Editor and Target-AID"
  Nature Communications. 9(1):2892. (2018)
• 6.Sasaguri H, Nilsson P, Hashimoto S, Nagata K, Saito T, De Strooper B, Hardy J, Vassar R, Winblad B, Saido TC.:
  "APP mouse models for Alzheimer's disease preclinical studies"
  EMBO Joural. 36(17):2473-2487. (2017)
• 7.*Sasaguri H, Chew J, Xu YF, Gendron TF, Garrett A, Lee CW, Jansen-West K, Bauer PO, Perkerson EA, Tong J, Stetler C, Zhang YJ.:
  "The extreme N-terminus of TDP-43 mediates the cytoplasmic aggregation of TDP-43 and associated toxicity in vivo"
  Brain Research. 1647:57-64. (2016)
• 8.*Zhang YJ, Gendron TF, Grima JC, Sasaguri H, Jansen-West K, Xu YF, Katzman RB, Gass J, Murray ME, Shinohara M, Lin WL, Garrett A, Stankowski JN, Daughrity L, Tong J, Perkerson EA, Yue M, Chew J, Castanedes-Casey M, Kurti A, Wang ZS, Liesinger AM, Baker JD, Jiang J, Lagier-Tourenne C, Edbauer D, Cleveland DW, Rademakers R, Boylan KB, Bu G, Link CD, Dickey CA, Rothstein JD, Dickson DW, Fryer JD, Petrucelli L.:
  "C9ORF72 poly(GA) aggregates sequester and impair HR23 and nucleocytoplasmic transport proteins"
  Nature Neuroscience. 19(5):668-677. (2016)
• 9.*Chew J, Gendron TF, Prudencio M, Sasaguri H, Zhang YJ, Castanedes-Casey M, Lee CW, Jansen-West K, Kurti A, Murray ME, Bieniek KF, Bauer PO, Whitelaw EC, Rousseau L, Stankowski JN, Stetler C, Daughrity LM, Perkerson EA, Desaro P, Johnston A, Overstreet K, Edbauer D, Rademakers R, Boylan KB, Dickson DW, Fryer JD, Petrucelli L.:
  "Neurodegeneration. C9ORF72 repeat expansions in mice cause TDP-43 pathology, neuronal loss, and behavioral deficits"
  Science. 348(6239):1151-4. (2015)
• 10.*Uchida A, Sasaguri H, Kimura N, Tajiri M, Ohkubo T, Ono F, Sakaue F, Kanai K, Hirai T, Sano T, Shibuya K, Kobayashi M, Yamamoto M, Yokota S, Kubodera T, Tomori M, Sakaki K, Enomoto M, Hirai Y, Kumagai J, Yasutomi Y, Mochizuki H, Kuwabara S, Uchihara T, Mizusawa H, Yokota T.:
  "Non-human primate model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with cytoplasmic mislocalization of TDP-43"
  Brain. 135(Pt 3):833-46. (2012)

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